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Trump slams anonymous NYT op-ed at rally: 'Is it treason?' | TheHill

posted onSeptember 7, 2018
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Article snippet: MORE went after The New York Times on Thursday night for publishing a blistering op-ed by an anonymous senior Trump administration official who blasted the president. “You look at this horrible thing that took place, is it subversion, is it treason?" Trump said during a campaign-style rally in Billings, Mont., aimed at boosting Republican Senate candidate Matt Rosendale. "It is really terrible,” Trump continued, blasting the author of the piece as “an anonymous, gutless coward.” Some Republicans have pushed back on Trump's suggestion that the official who penned the op-ed committed treason. "I don't think that this person has committed treason as the president has said, and no, The New York Times should not turn him or her over,” Sen. told Hill.TV on Thursday. The White House has furiously worked to identify the official behind the anonymous op-ed, who lambasted Trump's "amorality" and described a group of White House staffers working against Trump’s “misguided impulses.” “The root of the problem is the president’s amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making,” the op-ed stated.  “Meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails, he engages in repetitive rants, and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back,” the author added. During his rally Thursday night, Trump called on The New York Times to release th... Link to the full article to read more

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